Dr. Wendy Shirk: On Maximizing Potential & Purpose

In this episode

In this episode I sit down with Dr. Wendy Shirk, a business and executive coach who is passionate about helping people maximize their full potential. Wendy and I actually connected through social media and mutual friends, and we're about to attend a Christian business women's event together in Florida, so this conversation felt like the start of a real friendship. I love that we got to dig into both her professional journey and the deeper, more personal parts of her story.

Wendy shares her path from teaching business communications and serving as a dean at Oral Roberts University to building Shirk Consulting and becoming a board certified coach. We talk about what she calls your "sweet spot" — that place where all of your experiences and your God-given gifts meet — and how staying there makes life feel less like work and more like purpose.

But what made this episode so special is how raw and vulnerable Wendy was willing to be. She opened up about grieving the recent loss of her mother, her healing through Celebrate Recovery, and her journey as a breast cancer survivor. None of that was on my list of questions — God directed that conversation. If you're carrying grief, walking through a hard diagnosis, or learning to bring your story into the light, I think you'll feel seen here.